Bureau’s Global fraud report highlights $442B exposure as AI collapses attack costs

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Bureau, a global unified risk decisioning platform, today launched the Global Fraud Intelligence Report 2026: AI, Identity, and the Future of Fraud Defense at the Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2026.

The report examines fraud dynamics across North America, Europe, the UK, Southeast Asia, APAC and MENA, combining primary data from INTERPOL, FATF, Europol and the FBI with signals observed across Bureau’s global network. According to INTERPOL, global fraud losses reached $442 billion in 2025.

Bureau’s central finding is that AI has fundamentally altered the economics of fraud, making capabilities that once required advanced technical skills increasingly accessible and attacks repeatable across institutions at near-zero marginal cost.

Key Report Findings

● AI Made the Expensive Part of Fraud Cheap: Generative document synthesis, deepfakes and voice cloning have lowered the barriers to creating usable identities. Synthetic-linked account takeover (ATO) events tripled in a single quarter.

● Attacks Are Repeated, Not Invented: Bureau’s...

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